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Air America is a 1990 comedy action film from director Roger Spottiswoode. Billy Covington (Robert Downey, Jr. ) had a great job as a Los Angeles-based helicopter traffic reporter until he's fired for breaking FAA regulations. Unemployed, broke and desperate, Billy accepts an offer to fly cargo shipments in Laos, a neighbor of war-torn Vietnam. Billy's first day on the job is a total eye-opener, though, as he learns his new employer is actually the CIA. His new partner is a burnt out black market weapons dealer, and is possibly crazy, as are half the other pilots flying for Air America. Gene Ryack (Mel Gibson) has been in Laos a long time, perhaps too long. He's learned to turn a blind eye to what happens in Laos, even as he participates in much of it, and counsels newcomer Billy to do the same. Life would be easier if he went with the flow, but Billy finds himself morally incapable of ignoring what he sees. To make a difference, though, he'll have to convince Gene, and the other pilots, to see Air America from his perspective.

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